SOLUTION: simone has 5 employees in her flower shop.Each employee works 6 4/15 hours per day.How many hours,in total,do the employees work per day?

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Question 190101: simone has 5 employees in her flower shop.Each employee works 6 4/15 hours per day.How many hours,in total,do the employees work per day?
Answer by josmiceli(3359) About Me  (Show Source):
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An easy way to work with the mixed number 6 4/15 is
to convert the fraction to one with 60 in the
denominator.
A good rule is that you can always multiply a fraction by
1 without changing it. All these fractions equal 1:
5%2F5,11%2F11.659%2F659, etc.
What you should use is 4%2F4
%284%2F4%29%2A%284%2F15%29+=+16%2F60
In this problem, 16%2F60 is a fractional part of an hour.
In order to get minutes, note that 1%2F60 of an hour is
1 minute, so 16%2F60 of an hour is 16 minutes
Now I can say 6 4/15 hours = 6 hours and 16 minutes
1 hour has 60 minutes, so 6 hours has
6%2A60+=+360 minutes
So far I have 6 4/15 hours = 360+%2B+16 minutes
360+%2B+16+=+376 minutes
So, 5 employees each work 376 minutes per day
Altogether, they work 5%2A376+=+1880 minutes
The problem wants the answer in hours, so
1880%2F60 = 31 1/3 hours
1/3 hour is 20 minutes because 3%2A20+=+60 minutes
The 5 employees work 31 hours and 20 minutes